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The irrevocable scope of this license means TikTok retains usage rights to content even if a user deletes their account or ceases platform participation. The explicit inclusion of machine learning and algorithmic development creates an institutional basis for using user content to train AI systems without ongoing user consent or compensation.
Users retain ownership of their content but grant TikTok permanent rights to reproduce, modify, and use that content globally across current and future services, including AI training purposes. The license remains in effect regardless of whether the user later wishes to withdraw permission or delete their account.
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You are responsible for your use of the Services and for any Content, including anything referenced therein, you provide, create, post, or otherwise utilize, including any inputs, prompts, outputs, and/or information obtained or created through the Services.
We may use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the Services and to develop other products and services, including training our models, unless you opt out of training through your account settings. Even if you opt out, we will use Materials for model training when: (1) you provide Feedback to...
After registration, you may create, upload or transmit files, documents, videos, images, data or information as part of your use of the Service (collectively, "User Content"). This includes any inputs you provide to our AI-powered support tools and outputs generated in response to your inputs. User ...
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"By creating, inputting, publishing, and otherwise providing Your Content on or to the Platform, you grant to TikTok USDS Joint Venture a license to use Your Content that is: non-exclusive, irrevocable, and royalty-free (you retain the rights to use Your Content elsewhere, although we don't owe you any payments for sharing Your Content with us); assignable and sub-licensable, including through multiple tiers (so we can, for example, work with service providers and business partners to help distribute Your Content); and worldwide (so we can show your content to a global audience). Our license to use Your Content includes our rights to access, reproduce (e.g. to copy), distribute, share, download, adapt or make derivative works (e.g. to translate and/or create captions), perform, and communicate Your Content to the public (e.g. to display it), for the purposes of operating, improving, and providing the Platform and developing new technologies (including training, testing, and improving our machine learning models and algorithms) and services for TikTok USDS Joint Venture and our service providers and business partners, consistent with these Terms and subject to your Platform settings.— Excerpt from TikTok's TikTok Terms of Service
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The irrevocable scope of this license means TikTok retains usage rights to content even if a user deletes their account or ceases platform participation. The explicit inclusion of machine learning and algorithmic development creates an institutional basis for using user content to train AI systems without ongoing user consent or compensation.
Users retain ownership of their content but grant TikTok permanent rights to reproduce, modify, and use that content globally across current and future services, including AI training purposes. The license remains in effect regardless of whether the user later wishes to withdraw permission or delete their account.
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